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Fri 28-08-2020 12:31 pm AEST
The Australian Federal Police have charged a 57-year-old Cairns man with possessing child abuse material following an investigation to the alleged payment of money to the Philippines to facilitate child...
Wed 05-08-2020 12:00 pm AEST
Published by AFP on Wednesday, 5 August 2020, Publish time:7:31amEditor’s note: Arrest footage and images from the Wyong search warrant (previously unreleased) are available to download via hightailAustralian Federal Police...
Fri 17-07-2020 9:33 am AEST
A 21-year-old man is scheduled to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court today after the Queensland Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (QLD JACET) charged him with child abuse offences.Between February and...
Thu 16-07-2020 7:30 am AEST
Last week saw a milestone for the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), hosting a trial of the first collaboration with non-government organisations in the shared workspace at the...
Mon 13-07-2020 11:00 am AEST
This is a joint media release between Australian Federal Police, the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation and South Australia PoliceA 45-year-old man accused of possessing child abuse material and...
Tue 07-07-2020 12:53 pm AEST
A 40-year-old Sydney man is due to appear before the Central Local Court on child abuse charges following an investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP).The investigation commenced after the...
Tue 30-06-2020 2:00 pm AEST
A 19-year-old man is scheduled to appear in Darwin Local Court today after the Northern Territory Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (NT JACET) charged him with multiple child abuse offences.In...
Fri 05-06-2020 12:40 pm AEST
An Australian Federal Police-led investigation has smashed open a domestic online network of alleged child sex offenders, who are accused of abusing and exploiting Australian children and recording the horrific...
Thu 30-04-2020 8:30 am AEST
A 28-year-old man is scheduled to appear in Darwin Local Court after the Northern Territory Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (NT JACET) charged him with the alleged possession of child...
Tue 28-04-2020 12:41 pm AEST
The protection of children remains a high priority for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) and state and territory police Australia-wide, with new resources...
Thu 23-04-2020 1:30 pm AEST
A New South Wales man has been charged with several child exploitation offences following his arrest by Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers this morning.The 29-year-old man is due to face...
Wed 22-04-2020 9:00 am AEST
This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and Western Australia PoliceA 48-year-old West Australian man accused of sharing videos online of children being sexually abused is...
Tue 21-04-2020 10:30 am AEST
This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police, New South Wales Police Force, Queensland Police Service, Victoria Police and South Australia PoliceThe protection of children remains a...
Mon 20-04-2020 9:00 am AEST
Operation WALWA has targeted an online marketplace of child abuse material since 2018 and has resulted in 16 people arrested on 738 charges in Australia.Most significantly, Operation WALWA also saw...
Mon 13-04-2020 3:00 pm AEST
A 24-year-old man is due to face Penrith Court following an AFP investigation into the alleged possession and sharing of child abuse material online.The investigation began following a report from...
Fri 03-04-2020 8:30 am AEDT
A 52-year-old Melbourne man has been sentenced to 18 and a half years’ imprisonment today (Monday 30 March, 2020), after sexually abusing children in the Philippines.The Victorian Joint Anti-Child Exploitation...
Mon 30-03-2020 8:00 am AEDT
On 20 March 2020, new offences for failing to protect children from and failing to report child sexual abuse came into effect.The offences were created by the Combatting Child Sexual...
Fri 27-03-2020 11:00 am AEDT
A 35-year-old New South Wales woman has been charged with two child abuse offences following an Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigation into allegations the woman was sharing and producing child...
Tue 10-03-2020 8:00 am AEDT
A 49-year-old Palmerston man is scheduled to appear in Darwin Local Court this morning (10 March 2020) after the Northern Territory Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (NT JACET) charged him...
Fri 21-02-2020 3:58 pm AEDT
The Queensland Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (QLD JACET) has charged a 55-year-old Brisbane man with 44 offences in relation to the alleged sexual exploitation of children both online and...
Fri 21-02-2020 9:20 am AEDT
Our very own Senior Constable Danielle Leske has been declared the AFP Detective of the Year, presented by AFP Commissioner Reece P Kershaw and AFP Deputy Commissioner Investigations Ian McCartney,...
Thu 20-02-2020 12:17 am AEDT
On Wednesday, 19 February 2020, AFP Commissioner Reece P Kershaw, joined the CEO of Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) Nicole Rose and the CEO of Australia Criminal Intelligence...
Thu 01-11-2018 12:00 am AEDT
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) and the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) co-hosted the Child Exploitation Material (CEM) Reduction Research Program Roundtable on 1 November 2018 in...
Mon 03-09-2018 11:05 am AEST
The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) hosted its first stakeholder engagement meeting that saw Assistant Commissioners from around the country join representatives from key government departments to discuss...
Mon 03-09-2018 11:03 am AEST
The battle against child exploitation and abuse will be substantially boosted with the opening of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) in Brisbane today.Visit the Minister for Home...
Sun 25-03-2018 12:00 pm AEDT
The Turnbull Government will establish a national centre to counter child exploitation and abuse.The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) will drive a national effort to combat a global...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
*Editor's note: An arrest image and footage is available via Hightail.A 19-year-old Adelaide man was arrested by the South Australia Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (SA JACET) at a train...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
A 62-year-old man allegedly caught with images and videos of children being sexually abused is expected to face Elizabeth Magistrates Court on 31 August.The South Australia Joint Anti Child Exploitation...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
*Editor's note: vision is available to download here via hightail*Forty-four Australian men are facing 350 charges of possessing child exploitation material after a law enforcement referral sparked a large, nationwide...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
The new purpose-built Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) facility was officially opened in Brisbane today by the Minister for Home Affairs, The Hon Peter Dutton.The new facility houses...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
Two Sydney men and a Queensland man have been charged in the past week and four children have been saved from further harm, following a national police investigation into individuals...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
A Brisbane man has been charged with possessing child abuse material after authorities in the United States allegedly intercepted images of child abuse being uploaded to Snapchat, Google and Yahoo...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and Western Australia Police ForceA 56-year-old Perth man allegedly caught with child abuse material has been charged by the...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
A 45-year-old man will face Melbourne Magistrate’s Court today, charged in relation to child abuse material offences.The man was arrested and charged on Friday, 1 May, following the execution of...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
This is a joint release between Australian Federal Police and South Australia Police.A 29-year-old man accused of accessing and sharing child abuse material is expected to face Adelaide Magistrates Court...
Mon 01-01-2018 12:00 am AEDT
This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and South Australia PoliceA 38-year-old man who allegedly uploaded more than 1000 digital files of young girls being sexually...